In fact, in the past few years, Mohs has helped a lot.

It is precisely because of their existence that the Lu family has basically sorted out the situation of the entire court in the past few years, and formulated a lot of policies and promoted them.

Redundant officials were reduced, local garrisons were reduced, and construction expenditures were basically stopped, except for the restoration of Pingzhou's armaments. At this point, the expenses of the dynasty were drastically reduced in a few years.

At the same time, due to the control of the local government, during this period of time, through the efforts of all parties, it has gradually improved, and the tax revenue and industrial income that should be received are also in place.

In the first and second years, the Lu family had to be transfused blood from Feiyun Prefecture to the imperial court, and those days were indeed very hard, and the reconstruction of the forbidden army was delayed again and again. Moreover, the northern realm was also affected by the disaster of the white ghost's southward journey, and it was not easy to live.

In the past two years, the Lu family has been tight.

However, by the third year, the imperial court itself would have been able to make ends meet, and in the fourth and fifth years, it would not only be able to break even, but also have a surplus.

This surplus can even be used to feed the Lu family.

In fact, the Lu family itself is already quite wealthy. All kinds of industries have been carried out impressively, and the production capacity of the two major industrial lines of refining and alchemy is almost the highest in Feiyun Prefecture. Moreover, after the Northern Desolate Forest Demon Clan in the west and north was defeated, in fact, the Lu family was still leading the development and exploration of the entire Feiyun Prefecture to the northwest.

In this regard, in fact, there have been some results.

Originally, Anling County was a county in the northwesternmost corner of Feiyun Prefecture, but now it is not.

A newly established Shenlu County became the fifth county in Feiyun Prefecture.

The planned land scope of Shenlu County is the largest, and it can even be half the size of the original Feiyun Prefecture. Of course, despite the name, it seems that most of the land in Shenlu County is still wasteland, and there are no people at all.

In fact, this matter has been done for a long time. But in the past, the development of Shenlu County mainly relied on Feiyun Prefecture itself. The Lu family led this matter, mobilizing the major families of Anling County to explore and excavate industries, migrate mortals and take root on the spot, and send monks to protect the results......

But this process is still somewhat slow.

In the past five years, after the imperial court had spare strength, it began to increase its investment in Shenlu County.

In the plan, if the development of Shenlu County is achieved in the next few decades, then the entire Feiyun Prefecture will benefit from it. At present, Feiyun Prefecture, among the seven states of Yan Kingdom, is the second-to-last in terms of prosperity and resource output. But when the Shenlu Forest is developed, it is difficult to say how prosperous it is, at least the resource output will be greatly improved, and the benefits will not be worse than Jinzhou.

Of course, this increase in income has nothing to do with the imperial court, and it will become the income of the Lu family.

But that's the world. The income of the Lu family, in a sense, can be regarded as the inner treasury of the Great Yan Dynasty. Of course, it is separate from the treasury and mainly supplies the royal family, but when the country is in need, it is not impossible to use it for emergency relief.

To put it bluntly, the Lu family has become the Great Yan Imperial Family, and one thing is certain: they are strong as a nation, and leading the Yan Kingdom to become stronger is by the way, not the other way around.

The Lu family did not come to work for Yan Guo, and they did not consider using their own blood to make up for Yan Guo. If you need to do this in the short term, you can do it in the long term. It looks great, but it's actually stupid. Although the Lu family is developing quite well now, it is impossible to make up for a country's blood with its own strength.

All in all, within the Yan Kingdom, everything is developing for the better.

Of course, there are a lot of bad things.

Although the internal problems are being solved one by one, Lu Chaoxi has gradually secured the position of the emperor, and the Lu family's atmosphere as an imperial family has become more and more sufficient. However, the external pressure faced by the entire Yan Kingdom is not small at all.

Mainly from the Wei State.

Da Wei is a thief. After the war in previous years, the main army of the Great Wei, the great general Xia Cang, was withdrawn, but they still had a corps, stationed in the south of the Pingzhou defense line, and from time to time sent some scout squads to cross the border to Pingzhou to carry out reconnaissance and carry out some sabotage tasks.

It stands to reason that the two countries are still at war, after all, after the war, the two sides did not sign any armistice agreement or anything like that.

For these scout squads, the local garrison corps in Pingzhou of course received an order to expel and annihilate them. However, the scout team sent in by others can be regarded as elite. The garrison corps of the imperial court was difficult to deal with, and often after paying a lot of casualties, they even let the family escape.

The only ones who can really achieve some achievements are the descendants of the Yunxiao Sect stationed on the Pingzhou defense line.

Over the past five years, this has almost become a daily routine on the Pingzhou front. It was on such a small scale that the two sides fought all over Pingzhou.

The overall number of casualties is not too much. Moreover, the Wei State would neither nor dare to risk the world to instruct the monks to slaughter mortals. But just such infiltration and destruction are still annoying.

The three counties in the south of Pingzhou were all hit by the disaster, and the local small sects and local forces suffered unspeakably, and the output of various resources was greatly reduced. This has led to a decline in the production capacity of the entire Pingzhou, which is at least three or four percent

Although the imperial court itself could not collect taxes in Pingzhou, Pingzhou's output was basically taken away by Yunxiao Sect. However, Yunxiao Sect lost this money, and they still had to bear the pressure exerted by the Wei State on the front line, and they would not resist these costs by themselves.

In the past few years, the imperial court has always allocated funds to the Pingzhou front, and the expenditure has increased day by day, and it is even impossible to see when it will be a head for a while.

What's more critical is that the Yunxiao Sect monk corps on the Pingzhou front line did not dare to take the initiative to attack. Perhaps, they have the ability to organize a surprise attack and burn the flames of war into the territory of the neighboring Wei State of Hezhou, but first, the place where people can hit with the moat of the big river is only the north of Hezhou, and they can't cross the big river;

In fact, over the years, in addition to the small-scale confrontations on the frontline battlefield, there have been more than one or two confrontations between the two countries at the diplomatic level. Mo Chengdong, the new son of the Mo family in charge of foreign affairs in charge of foreign affairs, worked hard to promote the peace process between Great Yan and Great Wei in accordance with the intentions of the imperial court and Yunxiao Sect.

However, Wei's demands were too much. On the one hand, there was a demand for the cession of territory, and on the other hand, very high war reparations. also asked Yan Guo to hand over the Li family......

Of course, these conditions cannot be agreed, and the two sides are arguing over these things, and Pingzhou is still burning with one small-scale war after another.

However, this faceless meeting has made some changes in things.

After Bai Yuan's death, the Faceless Society was destroyed, and a large amount of information was obtained by the Lu family, which recorded a lot of things that the secret affairs camp of the Wei State secretly supported the Faceless Society.

In addition, even when besieging Bai Yuan, five clones of the ghost-faced god unexpectedly appeared, which also made people feel particularly angry.

After the imperial court communicated with Yunxiaozong, he sent a diplomatic note to Wei as the Great Hongluqing, who was in charge of the country's diplomatic work, and denounced their behavior.

Wei, of course, completely denied these accusations.

But this denial is very weak. On the one hand, they can't come up with anything, denying the materials they have found in the faceless meeting, and secondly, they are the embodiment of the ghost-faced god, and they can only talk with excuses like 'this is fake' and 'pure slander'.

That must be.

Assuming that there were only Yan and Wei, the people denied it, and it would be difficult to do anything else if there was nothing they could do.

But the entire cultivation world is not just the Wei State and the Yan State.

The Nine Immortal Kingdoms are not just for fun. They Wei are the most powerful of the nine kingdoms, but after all, they are still very early to unify the world. Wei and Yan were at war, and the relationship was not good, but the feud was the Qi State in the east.

The strength of the people is not bad.

To be honest, if it weren't for the worry that Qi would be doing something in the east, Xia Cang would not have hastily withdrawn his troops in that war eight years ago. No matter how much power the Wei State exerts, it is not impossible to go north and destroy the Yan State.

And this time, after being caught, Mo Chengdong, the Great Yan Hongqing, also moved around many times, contacted the Qi State, and put pressure together;

The Liang State to the west of the Wei State was originally within the scope of wooing, but because the Yan and Jin countries attacked the Northern Wilderness, there was a very strong tradition of coexistence of the human race and the demon race in the Liang State, and they were very dissatisfied with this, so they did not say anything this time;

Of course, there are many parties behind the scenes. Yan Guo paid a lot of practical things in exchange for the support of many parties.

However, the effort of these things is still valuable.

Under pressure, Wei had to restart peace talks with Yan.

At the negotiation table, Mo Chengdong was tough on the face, but he was actually relatively soft.

The instructions given to him by the Lu family and the Yunxiao Sect were actually very unified. Civil strife, wars, and natural disasters in the southward journey of the white ghosts, all of which have been experienced by the Yan Kingdom, now need time to recuperate and accumulate strength. I haven't dealt with my own domestic affairs yet, so it's really not appropriate to be outside and maintain a state of hostility for a long time with such a powerful enemy as Great Wei.

There is nothing to talk about handing over the Li family, and it is not possible to cede the territory, otherwise the Pingzhou defense line that has been laid out will make the family embed a nail, which will certainly be unacceptable.

But the war reparations are here, and Yan Guo can be soft.

After two years of arduous negotiations, the peace treaty was finally negotiated.

The Yan State needed to compensate the Wei State with four million spirit stones, to be paid in three years.

This is not a small amount of money, and the imperial court finances, which were originally a little improved, were suddenly pressed on a heavy burden. And the meaning of Yunxiao Sect is also obvious, they don't plan to give out this money, and they have to find a way to squeeze it out of their own finances.

When this matter came back, the whole Yan Kingdom was very aggrieved.

The Lords and factions, who are desperate to quell the war, are of course welcome. But the main war faction and the centrist faction were disappointed by this. In the past ten years, the Lu royal family, which has gradually established prestige, has also felt some pressure within the Yan Kingdom, and its prestige has a downward trend.

In any case, it is clear that the war was not lost, but it is still necessary to pay reparations, which many people can't accept emotionally.

But there is no way to do this matter, what the Lu family can do is to try to guide public opinion internally, on the one hand, to throw the pot on the Li family, which was caused by Li Shiwen back then, and on the other hand, to channel hatred to the enemy country of Great Wei as much as possible.

In short, let me rest and rest, come back to my senses, and in a few more years, see who has thick wrists.

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In any case, it is a good thing that the peace treaty has been negotiated.

The military expenditure on the front line can be slowed down a little, and the entire imperial court also has more energy, which can be invested in the unified management of the interior. The whole Dayan is gradually recovering its strength.

And in addition, there is a good thing.

In the Lu family, in the third month after the interview, a special descendant was added.

The Lu family's population is not too sparse now, and newborns will always come out. But the reason why this one is very special is mainly because of his parents.

This child, who was named Lu Tingwan, has the two nominally most noble people in Dayan as his father and mother.

He is the son of Lu Chaoxi and Li Yanling.

Lu Chaoxi and Li Yanling have been married for forty years. But the two of them have not given birth to new offspring until today.

And more importantly, after the child was born, Lu Qing saw his talent through the system interface for the first time:

Born with a single spirit root!

This can be regarded as a very good talent anyway, but in fact, in the Lu family, Shan Linggen is just like that, there are many of them.

However, Lu Qing was very overjoyed by this.

The single spirit root monks that the Lu family produced before were actually basically born with dual spirit roots, but the day after tomorrow, Lu Qing took an exchange item like [Ascending Spirit Root] and gave them a layer up, and they reached the level of a single spirit root.

To upgrade from a single spirit root to a heavenly spirit root, you need a five-star [Ascending Spirit Root]. Five-star exchange items, even if they are not rare, for Lu Qing, there are not many in his hands.

However, except for [Ascending Spiritual Root].

[Raise Spirit Root] This kind of exchange item, even if the high-star one wants to use it, the object that has to be used must have a natural single spirit root level. Lu Qing had several of these things in his hands, but he always wanted to use them.

Now, it's finally available!

Without hesitation, a five-star elevation spirit root was exchanged, and Lu Qing looked at it again, Lu Tingwan, a newborn little grandson, had already become a Huotian Spirit Root cultivator!

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